Project #41593 - LEG Definitions

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We’re almost ready! After a solid week of establishing the basics, this LEG is our final step before we dig into a few phenomenal short stories, our Little Black Fish collection and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. The rad part: each of these devices will pop up in everyday discussions today, tomorrow, and each day throughout the year. Let’s bust a move!

Listed below are several of the 120+ literary elements/devices that we will explore, discuss, and implement into our reading, writing, and speaking. There’s no way that we could cram all 120+ devices into our preliminary LEG, so let’s just start with those that we’ll use during our first month.

To do this, we will practice several killer skills. First, we need to know how to use our literature anthology (your textbook). I know: it’s big; it’s clunky; it’s heavy. Well, like I said before, we won’t bring it to class every single day, but you do need to know how access the incredible cache of resource at your fingertips. No joke, this textbook will be more helpful to you than the internet during that late-night cram session.) To use the textbook properly, we need to know how to access the Table of Contents, headings and titles, “collection previews”, index, glossary, and everything in between.

“Allegory: a narrative in which characters and settings stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities” (1019).

Since we can safely assume that each of our LEG entries will originate from our Elements of Literature: Third Course anthology, we simply need to include a page number in parentheses at the end of our entries. However, keep in mind that you must place quotation marks around any text that is taken directly from the anthology. If you reword the original text, you don’t need quotation marks, but you do still need the parentheses and page number. This is called paraphrase - you’re taking another author’s work and making it your own (while keeping the message the same!). We will practice both direct quotations and indirect quotations for our LEG.